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Camosun students were excited when prime minister Justin Trudeau announced the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) on April 22. But, as we reported at the time, some were wary, as well. I know I was, since I had applied for unemployment benefits in the past but got denied because of the many picky details that […]

It’s only been a few years since it became apparent to me that even though most people deal with anxiety to some degree, not everyone feels anxious virtually every waking moment. I was already into my 30s before I realized that I myself felt acutely anxious nearly all day, every day. But I could not […]

It’s day 63 for me. I’ve grown to hate the Q-word (you know the one). It’s a negative word used to describe something that’s paying off and necessary, and, therefore, positive. But I also hate it when people decide the word is the issue, when really it’s so often the associations of the word, or […]

Everyone is on the edge of their seats: for the first time in two months, we’ve been shown there there is an end to all this… Well, “change” would be a better term than “end.” Nothing is ending. But some things could change for the post-secondary sector by the fall. After finally getting settled into […]

All I can do these days is just go along with this new reality. If someone had told me last year that 2020 was going to the year of the plague, the year of isolation and standing in line-ups outside of grocery stores watching people scream at each other—from two metres apart, in parking lots—over […]

If someone had told me at the beginning of March that the start of the spring semester would arrive hand-in-hand with week seven of quarantine, I would have looked for a hidden movie camera, and waited for someone to yell “cut!”—a sequel to Children of Men or I Am Legend, perhaps. There’s no camera, and […]

“How do you feel about online classes?” It’s a question that every student has been asked non-stop since the beginning of last month. It’s a fair question to ask. With such uncertainty in our present situation, online classes are here for the summer semester, whether we like it or not. It’s reasonable to want to […]

I once did a 10-day silent Vipassana meditation retreat during which we were not allowed to use our phones, read, write, exercise (besides walking around a few acres a couple times a day), clean, cook, talk to one another, or even make eye contact with anyone. It was a very long 10 days, with about […]

If I’m being completely honest, I’m really sad right now. I miss walking into the cafeteria for a Camosun muffin, listening to the really odd segments of conversation you catch on campus, and being a part of the Camosun community. There’s no end in sight. I’m not going to sit here and tell you it […]

In the words of Tom Petty, the waiting is the hardest part. That’s essentially what everyone at Camosun College has been doing for over a month now. Even worse than waiting, however, is the eerie reality that we don’t know exactly what we’re waiting for. It’s as if you’ve had a CAT scan; the doctor’s […]